Definition of favour

"favour" in the noun sense

1. favor, favour

a feeling of favorable regard

2. favor, favour

an inclination to approve

"that style is in favor this season"

3. favor, favour

an advantage to the benefit of someone or something

"the outcome was in his favor"

4. party favor, party favour, favor, favour

souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

5. favor, favour

an act of gracious kindness

"favour" in the verb sense

1. favor, favour

treat gently or carefully

2. privilege, favor, favour

bestow a privilege upon

3. prefer, favor, favour

promote over another

"he favors his second daughter"

4. favor, favour

consider as the favorite

"The local team was favored"

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Quotations for favour

Flattery gets favour. [ Proverb ]

Kissing goes by favour. [ Proverb ]

Favour and gifts disturb justice. [ Danish Proverb ]

A favour ill-placed is profusion. [ Proverb ]

One favour qualifies for another. [ Proverb ]

The king's favour is no inheritance. [ Proverb ]

To favour the ill, is to injure the good. [ Proverb ]

To accept a favour is to forfeit liberty. [ Laber ]

A work of real merit finds favour at last. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Riches and favour go before wisdom and art. [ Danish Proverb ]

O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! [ William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor ]

It is a sort of a favour to be denied at first. [ Proverb ]

Not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Favour with words of good omen (by your tongues). [ Ovid ]

He that praises bestows a favour, he that detracts commits a robbery. [ Proverb ]

Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know yourself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Where you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favour on all. [ Publius Syrus ]

The favour of great men, and praise of the world, are not much to be relied on. [ Proverb ]

There is no conferring a favour (involving obligation) on a man against his will. [ Law Max ]

To a well-deserving man God will show favour, to an ill-deserving He will be simply just. [ Plaut ]

A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. [ Seneca ]

Petitioners for admittance into favour must not harass the condescension of their benefactor. [ Burns ]

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. [ Bible ]

The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man with the wisdom of the wise. [ Bodenstedt ]

Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]

Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. [ Bacon ]

There are few who, either by extraordinary endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed the opportunity of deciding what mode of life in especial they would wish to embrace. [ Cicero ]

favour in Scrabble®

The word favour is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters favour:

FAVOUR
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word favour

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favour in Words With Friends™

The word favour is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters favour:

FAVOUR
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word favour

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Words within the letters of favour

2 letter words in favour (4 words)

3 letter words in favour (8 words)

4 letter words in favour (3 words)

5 letter words in favour (1 word)

6 letter words in favour (1 word)

favour + 1 blank (2 words)

favour + 2 blanks (4 words)

Word Growth involving favour

Shorter words in favour

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Longer words containing favour

disfavour disfavourable

disfavour disfavoured

disfavour disfavourer disfavourers

disfavour disfavouring

disfavour disfavours

favourable disfavourable

favourable overfavourable

favourable underfavourable

favourable unfavourable unfavourableness

favourably unfavourably

favoured disfavoured

favoured illfavoured

favoured unfavoured

favouring disfavouring

favourite favourites

favouritism

favourless

favours disfavours

favours refavours

refavour refavours